The Windsor Lancers Men's Basketball team will tip-of their 2012 playoffs with a OUA West quarter-final showdown with the Brock Badgers on Wednesday night at the St. Denis Centre.

Fans are asked to note the special start time of 7pm. For those fans that are out of town, the playoff game will be carried live via webcast at SSN Canada.

The Lancers finished the regulars season with a 15-7 record and earned the #4 seed in the OUA West playoffs.

They'll be hoping to get another strong performance from rookie Junior Osuntola who scored 36 points in a pair of regular-season victories over the Badgers, including nailing eight of 12 attempts from behind the three-point line.
 
“When they tried to stop our strengths in Rico (Diloreto), Josh (Collins) and Lien (Phillip), I've been able to get wide open in the corner,” the six-foot-five Osuntola said of his long-range success against Brock.
 
The Badgers are making their first playoff appearance since winning the CIS national title in 2008 but they are limping into this post season, literally. After a promising 7-2 start to the 2011-12 season, the Badgers dropped 10 of their final 13 games.
 
Brock's 73-60 victory over Waterloo to end the regular season last weekend snapped a five-game losing streak.

“It's the playoffs now so we have to prepare even more for them,” Osuntola added. “I'm very excited about (the post-season). The competition is going to be intense.”
 
The Lancers handed Brock a 78-57 setback in Windsor in late January and followed up with a 78-72 win in St. Catharines a few weeks later.
 
Six-foot-six post Mark Gibson missed the first game against Windsor with an ankle injury but returned to score 16 points and grab nine rebounds in the rematch.
 
“He's as good an interior scorer as we'll play against,” Windsor coach Chris Oliver said of Gibson.
 
“Obviously, Lien on Mark Gibson is going to be a great matchup to watch.”
 
Phillip delivered Windsor's 15th win of the year with an 18-point, 14-rebound effort in last weekend's 79-64 wrapup against Western.
 
Windsor will also look for the leadership and point production they've come to expect from Diloreto (17.2 ppg) and Collins (13.6 ppg).
 
“Enrico is a key,” Oliver said. “He's had his struggles with with his ankle (injury). We need him to be a scorer in the playoffs to be successful.”
 
As the fourth seed out of the West, a victory would put the Lancers on the road for the remainder of their post-season run.